While waiting for Jannik Sinner, busy in his round of 16 match against the Argentine Cerundolo, Italy is great in Rome, where Lorenzo Musetti gets the pass to the quarter-finals and Jasmine Paolini flies to the semi-finals .
The Carrara native defeated Medvedev with a score of 7-5, 6-4 . Musetti played a solid and substantial match (in addition to his usual class) against the Russian, winner of the 2023 Italian Open.
In the first set, the players go “on serve” until 4-all, when Musetti breaks Medvedev’s serve, who immediately places the counterbreak. At 5-5, another break for the Carrara player who this time holds his serve and closes 7-5.
In the second set, a break was enough, obtained in the first game. The match was interrupted right on match point (7-5, 5-4 and 40-30 Musetti), due to a downpour that hit the Capital. And at the restart, a point was enough, the Italian closed immediately with a great winning forehand .
Crazy instead the victory of Paolini over the Russian Shnaider, in a match full of reversals . The Italian goes ahead 4-0 but is caught and loses the first set with the score of 7-6. In the second set it is Shnaider who takes the lead 4-0: the match seems over, but Paolini does not give up dragged by the central court of the Foro Italico, the Russian goes into crisis and the match turns again. Six games in a row for the 6-4 of the Tuscan, who goes down 2-0 in the decisive set but scores another 6 consecutive games and closes with the score of 6-7, 6-4, 6-2 .
(Unioneonline/L)
